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It has long been recognized that the atmosphere shares certain attributes with those of a turbulent fluid. Its apparent randomness and unpredictability on many scales combined with long term statistical order are just about what one would expect to observe if he were, say, an ant dwelling amongst the eddies of a turbulent pipe flow. Until recently, however, little use has been made of this sort of analogy except in the case of the surface boundary layer. The principal reason was first (before about World War II) the non-recognition by meteorologists of the special characteristics of the large scale atmosphere as a quasi-two-dimensional fluid and later the non-recognition by fluid dynamicists of the meaning-fulness and general characteristics of two-dimensional turbulence.
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Lilly, D.K. (1973). Lectures in Sub-Synoptic Scales of Motion and Two-Dimensional Turbulence. In: Morel, P. (eds) Dynamic Meteorology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2599-7_3
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